A warning to English Jews that they must put England’s interests before Jewry’s or else suffer the consequences of Fascist wrath was sounded tonight by Sir Oswald Mosley in his first great public meeting in this city.
More than 10,000 filled Albert Hall for the meeting.
‘In this country,” he declared, “there will be no racial or religious discrimination because that would be anti-British. But I tell all Jews who are citizens of this country that they must put interests of England before the interests of Jewry. If they use international finance in ways detrimental to England, or if they are leaders of communism as some of them are, the Fascists will know how to deal with them.”
He explained that Jews are excluded from the English Fascist movement because “they are as a class hostile to us.
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